Coon Rapids, MN, USA
Green, red, and blue pulses of light that stayed stationary in one spot for several hours with no movement.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-25
- Where
- Coon Rapids, MN, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 45.120, -93.288 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-coon-rapids-mn-2009-c58296
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Coon Rapids, MN shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 64 reports came from Minnesota in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.